Links

Links for Vulnerable People

• Aberdeen Cyrenians — care and support for vulnerable people in the North East

• Aberdeenshire Council — Community Learning Disability Service

• Apply for or renew a Blue Badge

• Autistica — helping autistic people have a long, happy, healthy life

• Breathing space

• Childline

• Clear your head

• Crimestoppers

• Get help from the Police even if you cannot speak

• Get Self Help

• Give Us A Shout

• Harmless — support for those that self-harm

• Inspiring Scotland — Improving Understanding of Autism in Scotland Regional Advisory Forums

• Mencap — the voice of learning disability

• Mind — the mental health charity

• Mental Health Foundation

• Mental Welfare Commission

• Mental Welfare Commission — Human Rights in Mental Health Services

• NHS 111

• NHS 24

• NHS Alcohol misuse treatment

• NHS Inform

• NHS Inform — Suicide

• One Stop Shop Aberdeen — providing information, training, one to one support, consulting and signposting services to people with Autism and their friends and families

• Penumbra Aberdeen — support for those with mental health issues

• Prevent Suicide app

• Samaritans

• Scottish Association for Mental Health

• Scotland's Mental Health First Aid

• VSA — Support for People with Learning Disabilities

• Whizz Kidz — wheelchairs for kids

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Parenting for those with a disability

• Aberdeen City Council — Apply for a school clothing grant

• Aberdeenshire Council — Early learning, nurseries and childcare

• Aberdeen City Council — Education maintenance allowances

• Aberdeen City Council — School closures and transport disruptions

• Aberdeenshire Council — Work placement opportunities for pupils

• Aberdeen City Music School at Dyce Academy

• Anna Ritchie School — Peterhead

• Disabled Parents Network

• Education Scotland — for Scotland's learners with Scotland's educators

• Hill of Banchory School

• The National Parent Forum of Scotland

• Parent Club — Family Support Directory: help for parents and carers

• Parentzone Scotland

• Scottish Book Trust — Transforming lives through reading and writing

• Scottish Book Trust — Bookbug Song and Rhyme Library

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Work Experience for Disabled People

• Aberdeenshire Council — Employability Support

• Get support in work if you have a disability or health condition (Access to Work)

• Capability Scotland

• Help with moving from benefits to work

• Institution of Occupational Safety and Health

• Looking for work if disabled

• Work Experience Opportunities with NHS Grampian

• North East Sensory Services

• Realise Support and Learning Services

• Remploy

• Work and Health Programme

North Aberdeenshire

• BEAT Recycling (Banff)

• Can-Do Community Recycling (Fraserburgh)

• Ellon Day Opportunities

• Glendaveny Teddy Bears (Peterhead)

• Howford Training (Strichen)

• Robertson Road Resource Centre (Fraserburgh)

• Willows Animal Sanctuary (New Pitsligo, Fraserburgh)

• Wood shop, the trading arm of social enterprise Wood Recyclebility (Udny, Pitmedden)

Central and South Aberdeenshire

• Computers and Integration (Inverurie)

• Cornerstone

• Fly Cup Catering (Inverurie)

• Foxlane Garden Centre (Westhill)

• Inspire

• Pitcaple Environmental Project

• The Seed Box (Aboyne)

Aberdeen

• Pathways

• Camphill Village Trust – Newton Dee

• Community Food Initiatives North East

• Easter Anguston Farm Training Centre – residential training in land-based skills

• Glencraft – craft work making fire retardant mattresses, beds and divans

• Iceberg Print and Design

• Inspire

• Rosie's Social Enterprises – catering, picture framing and wedding stationary

• Solstice Nurseries

• Solstice Nurseries on Facebook

• The Bread Maker

Moray

• Moray Employment Support Service

• Out of the Darkness Theatre Company (Elgin)

• Moray Waste Busters (Forres)

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Voluntary & Self-employed Work

• Aberdeenshire Voluntary Action

• Business Gateway

• Gordon Rural Action

• HM Revenue & Customs

• Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust

• Reach

• Royal Voluntary Service (formerly WRVS)

• Shell LiveWIRE

• Voluntary Service Aberdeen

• Voluntary Action Scotland

• Volunteer Scotland

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Education & Training

• Aberdeen City Council — Apply for a school clothing grant

• Aberdeen City Council — Education maintenance allowances

• Aberdeen City Council — School closures and transport disruptions

• Aberdeen City Music School at Dyce Academy

• AbilityNet

• BBC Bitesize

• Cornerstone

• Education Scotland — for Scotland's learners with Scotland's educators

• Law training in Scotland — for teachers and students

• Lead Scotland

• The National Parent Forum of Scotland

• My World of Work

• Parentzone Scotland

• Scottish Qualifications Authority

• Scotland's Rural College — Edinburgh

• Skills Development Scotland

• Skill – the National Bureau for Students with Disabilities

• The Open University – Disability support

• University guide for disabled students

Aberdeen

• Aberdeen University – Part-time Study

• North East Scotland College

• RGU – The Inclusion Centre: Disability and Dyslexia Service

• RGU – Online Learning Courses

• RGU – Study Support Services

Moray

• Findhorn College

• Moray Community Learning and Development

• Moray Essential Skills Service

• Moray Resource Centre

• Moray College – Study Support

• Moray Training

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Money Matters

• Attendance Allowance

• Armed Forces Independence Payment (AFIP)

• The Association of Charity Officers — the national umbrella body for charities that give grants and welfare support to individuals in need

• Banffshire Educational Trust

• Benefit cap

• Benefit cap: When you're not affected - GOV.UK

• How much is the Benefit cap?

• Bereavement Support Payment

• Carer's Allowance

• Consumer Affairs

• Compensation Recovery Unit

• Council Tax Reduction

• Credit action — Financial resources for people with disabilities

• Disabled Facilities Grants

• Disability Grants

• Disabled Students Allowance

• Disability Rights UK

• Disability Premiums

• Disability Rights UK — The official and only genuine Radar Key

• Employment and Support Allowance

• Funding and Scholarships — RGU

• Get help with funeral costs (Funeral Expenses Payment)

• Gov.uk Television licence discount

• Gov.uk financial help if you are disabled

• Gov.uk VAT relief for disabled people

• Gov.uk Armed forces compensation for disabled people

• Housing Benefit

• Incapacity Benefit

• Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit

• Maternity Allowance

• Maternity Pay and leave

• Money Advice Scotland

• Mygov.scot — Benefit overpayments

• NHS Low Income Scheme

• Pension Credit

• Permitted work factsheet

• Personal Independence Payment (PIP)

• Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)

• The Student Awards Agency for Scotland

• Scottish Welfare Fund

• Severe Disablement Allowance

• Sure Start Maternity Grant

• Tax Credits

• Turn2us

• Universal Credit

• Warm Home Discount Scheme

• War Widow(er) Pension

• Water sure scheme for water meters

• Widowed Parent's Allowance

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Travel & Transport

• Aberdeen Airport Disabled Access Guide

• Aberdeenshire TaxiCard

• Accord Card Scheme (Aberdeen)

• Concessionary Travel

• Disabled Persons Railcard

• ENABLE Scotland — Learning disabilities, Autism and Down's Syndrome

• National Entitlement Card — Aberdeenshire

• National Entitlement Card - Scotland-wide Free Bus Travel (Moray)

• Scotland-wide free bus scheme (National Entitlement Card)

• Trip Buzz — Wheelchair Accessible Travel Guide

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Support Services

• Aberdeen Action on Disability

• Advocacy North East

• Advocacy Service Aberdeen

• Association of Disabled Professionals (ADP)

• Bookbug Song and Rhyme Library

• Companion Stairlifts

• ENABLE Scotland

• Future Choices — social inclusion and recreational activities for the disabled community in Aberdeen

• Parent Club — Family Support Directory: help for parents and carers

• Grampian Autistic Society

• Grampian Regional Equality Council

• Home Energy Scotland

• Leonard Cheshire Disability

• North East Sensory Services

• Reachout — 5 ways to get your parents to really listen to you

• The Scottish Association for Mental Health

• Scottish Book Trust — Transforming lives through reading and writing

• Scottish Book Trust — Bookbug Song and Rhyme Library

• Scottish Commission for Learning Disability

• Scottish Woman's Aid — Information Support

• Sense Scotland

• Social farms and gardens

• Stairlift Helper

• Stairlifts Reviews

• Turning Point Scotland

• Quarriers Adult Disability

• Values Into Action Scotland

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Health & Well-being

• Alcoholics Anonymous

• Alcohol Change

• Alcoholism and Problem Drinking — Patient.info

• ARC Scotland — a charity that advances knowledge, practice and policy in health and social care for the benefit of people with learning disabilities or other additional support needs

• Beat — The UK's eating disorder charity

• Bipolar Help and Support Group in Aberdeen

• Carers UK — making life better for carers

• The Butterfly Trust — Cystic Fibrosis Charity

• CELCIS — improving childrens lives in Scotland

• Child Brain Injury Trust

• Community Care - Day Centres - Towerview (Moray)

• Dementia Aberdeenshire

• Drugs.ie — Drug and Alcohol Information and Support

• Dyslexia Scotland North East

• Gov.uk — Terminal illness benefits

• NHS in Scotland — GO Health Services

• Healthy Working Lives

• Healthy Working Lives Support for employees with health conditions

• The impact of sleep on the body

• Life Coach Directory

• Marie Curie — a DS1500 Form for benefits when you are dying

• Moray Occupational Therapy

• NHS Grampian

• Paramount Care Aberdeen

• Release, Drugs, The Law & Human Rights

• Scotland's Health on the Web — Grampian

• The Safe Effective Quality Occupational Health Service

• Stroke Carer Training

• Support In Mind Scotland — for those with mental health issues

• Talk to Frank: Honest information about drugs

• Travelling with Diabetes

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Resources for Voluntary Organisations

• Aberdeen Council of Voluntary Organisations

• Aberdeenshire Voluntary Action

• Disability Confident employer scheme and guidance

• GOV.UK (Formerly Directgov)

• The London Gazette Official Public Record — Queen's Awards for Enterprise press books

• The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service

• The Queen's Award for Enterprise

• Scottish Mentoring Network

• The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

• Social Enterprise Network Scotland — connecting, informing and developing social enterprise in Scotland

• Scottish Mentoring Network — Disability and Health

• tsiMoray — helps to grow and develop volunteering, community groups, charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises across Moray

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